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  1. Pay per visit rates

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

    So I have recently been hired at a home health agency PRN. I currently work at another agency hourly and make $30/hr. This new agency pays per visit and their rate is $28/visit no matter if it’s an...

  2. Pay per visit rates

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in Home Health

    Not sure about entry level now-when I was hired for med/Surg almost 10 years ago I started at $24/hr cost of living in NE Ohio is much lower than in California but still $28 per visit sounds quite low...

  3. Medicare Fraud?

    KSU-SN replied to jlynn2303's topic in Home Health

    If someone other than you is changing your documentation that is wrong...if they are suggesting that you downgrade some of your answers due to what can the patient safely do then that is one thing but...

  4. Medicare Fraud?

    KSU-SN replied to jlynn2303's topic in Home Health

    I was told the question is asking not what the pt can do or is currently doing but what is SAFE. It's all about

  5. How often do you do med reconciliation?

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

    The agency I work for just started having us do medication reconciliation every 2 weeks and after every doctor appt. we have always done it at every SOC, ROC, and recert. They say if we do not do it...

  6. Documenting in car

    KSU-SN replied to Grasshopper11's topic in Home Health

    I would never get my documentation done if I didn't chart in my patients' homes! I can't imagine seeing 5-6 patients every day and then at the end of the day have all that charting to

  7. How flexibile are you with patients in HH

    KSU-SN replied to amillion3147's topic in Home Health

    Medicaid patients aren't required to be homebound

  8. When to have the patient sign consent

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

    I am new to home health, just started 2 1/2 months ago and just last week started doing Start of Cares. I am still on "orientation" if you can call it that because since my second week on the job I...

  9. Rant about ungrateful, demanding patients

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a patient tonight in her late teens, had a C-section back in May and spent some time in ICU recently due to an abscess and came to our floor (med/surg) a few days ago. This patient is morbidly...

  10. Are starting wages negotiable?

    KSU-SN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi I just verbally accepted a position as a RN Case Manager for visiting nurse services here in Ohio through a large hospital in the Akron area. When the woman from human resources told me the hourly...

  11. Surgery floor nurses

    KSU-SN replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Our post-ops are not transferred by a nurse they are transferred by a transporter....and we do not get any kind of report. They come up with a trifold filled out with the meds they were given, what...

  12. Dr order for an ice pack?

    KSU-SN replied to misslindsay's topic in Patient Medications

    I work on a surgical care unit and we most definitely have to have an order for an ice pack. Many of our surgeons specifically do not want their patients to have ice packs to their incisions and we...

  13. First code, question about family notification

    KSU-SN replied to blackvans1234's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If someone called me in the middle of the night or whenever and told me my mom or dad coded, NOTHING could hold me back from going immediately to their

  14. Feeling sad about my ALS patient

    KSU-SN replied to ekramona's topic in General Nursing

    My grandma was pretty recently diagnosed with ALS....she is 83 years old and until about a year ago she ran on the treadmill every night, played basketball with us, mowed 2 acres of grass by herself...

  15. Is there a flu outbreak in your area?

    KSU-SN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Influenza B was the strain going around in my section of the country and a few doctors at work said that people who got the flu shot were still getting the flu because it did not cover Influenza B,...

  16. I am struggling with patient families lately.

    KSU-SN replied to jennilynn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    At the hospital where I work, our management doesnt have our back at all and its very frustrating. A couple of weeks ago we had a female patient who had cancer, was in her 50's, but was still alert...

  17. I just can't do this anymore...

    KSU-SN replied to ruthiemk's topic in General Nursing

    No wonder the divorce rate is so high! None of us know this couple or know anything other than her husband is upset with her...but HEY JUST LEAVE HIM, DIVORCE HIS AS*. Thats incredibly stupid advice...

  18. Dear Nursing Students/Orientees: A Love Note from the Preceptor from Hell

    KSU-SN replied to CheesePotato's topic in General Students

    geez some of you people get offended so easily....she's ranting, let her rant. We've all had bad days before and we've all had things we feel strongly

  19. Can I vent? Just a little... you can vent too if you want, I won't tell...

    KSU-SN replied to GonnaAmazeYou's topic in General Nursing

    here in Ohio its pretty easy to find a nursing job....theres constantly new nurses being hired at the hospital I work at and the Cleveland Clinic hired like 60-some nurses not too long

  20. Primary Nursing is for the BIRDS

    KSU-SN replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    I really thought that primary nursing was what nursing as a whole was changing over to...I thought team nursing was basically a thing of the past. I work on a busy med/surg unit in a large hospital...

  21. At my wit's end with this nursing assistant...

    KSU-SN posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have been an RN for over 2 years now...I started as a nursing assistant and was one for 4.5 yrs on the same floor I work on now at the hospital (Med/Surg.) I worked alongside another nursing...

  22. At my wit's end with this nursing assistant...

    KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yesterday I was on my lunch break and she had been floated to another floor to work there for the shift. She went on her break and came into the break room and started telling me how one of the nurses...

  23. Patient Complaint

    KSU-SN replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in General Nursing

    today one of my coworkers had a 90 year old completely A&Ox3 that not only was she manipulative but her family was just as bad. my coworker asked the patient what she wanted for breakfast and she...

  24. Working with student nurses

    KSU-SN replied to LisaRN1105's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say that I enjoy having students that want to learn and who have some common sense. It seems like lately we have had some very bad clinical groups who come in, take all the computers, talk...

  25. Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

    KSU-SN replied to auntie72's topic in General Nursing

    oops, JUST read the previous couple posts before me that pretty much say the same thing i